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The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle is a show for travel lovers. Each episode is packed with travel stories from fellow travel addicts on topics like using foreign languages, me...
It's easy to be a little envious of anyone who gets to travel to interesting places as part of their work, but when the work itself is also...
The world of volunteer tourism is a tricky one. Getting the balance right between enabling people to volunteer in another country, and meeti...
The more I travel (and the older I get!), the more I realise how little I know, and how wrong I've been about so many things! In this episod...
Iceland is a place many travellers dream of visiting; if, like me, you've been lucky enough to see Iceland, you probably desperately want to...
A decade ago to the day - 25th March 2016 - I launched the first episodes of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast. Somehow, I have just kept interv...
Some travellers have a much keener sense of adventure and embracing physical risk on their travels, and others just stumble into a travel dr...
It's International Women's Day again and I've got a different focus this year: some of the ways history and travel is not the same for women...
This special episode is the audio of the live-streamed February 2026 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, chatting with author Ha...
We often focus on the visual when we travel ... after all, travellers go sightseeing, not "sound-hearing" or "taste-tasting"! But when we lo...
One of the most memorable parts of travel is the people that we meet - not just the friends we make or the people we stay with but also the...
We need some light relief in these tricky times and I found these stories just perfect! Finding love while you're travelling sounds like it...
Various statistics suggest that more than half of travellers want to see animals when they travel: that's why we keep returning to the topic...
It's (somehow!) six years ago that we started to learn about this new virus and then find ourselves caught up in a global pandemic. While th...
Can you imagine that we didn't used to talk about overtourism? It's really only a decade since this word entered common usage but it seems w...
I last saw South Korea's fabulous capital Seoul way back in 2002, so when my 15-year-old son spotted a great flight price in November I was...
How often do we go somewhere with a preconceived idea and find it hard to really see other perspectives ... well, speaking for myself, prett...
This special episode is the audio of the Facebook Livestream of the December 2025 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, chatting a...
The end of 2025 is imminent and it's time to look back on our discussions and travels and then get ready for a thoughtful and fun 2026! In t...
Chris Christensen had the foresight to start a travel podcast before almost anyone had even heard of podcasts - way back in 2005. The Amateu...
When I learnt that past guest Renae Ninneman runs a business providing cultural intelligence assessments and intercultural training I was im...
Travelling to observe animals in the wild is a huge reason that we move around the world. The best case scenario is that we can see them wit...
One of my favourite outings in Bangkok last month was heading north to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed historic city of Ayutthaya for a day...
The new year is coming at us fast: 2026, here we come! At this time of year the reports and articles about travel trends are rife, and I lik...
In this final episode of the Van Life Diaries: Europe 1985, we return to England, drive through Scotland and Wales, and catch a ferry to Ire...
Travel and learning other languages often go hand in hand, whether we're cramming in a few words before we visit somewhere for the first tim...
This special episode is the audio of the Facebook Livestream of the October 2025 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, speaking wi...
Bangkok called my name again in September, and this episode recaps my experiences spending five days in the Thai capital, for a mix of work...
Now that we're worried about crowds and overtourism, the idea of visiting lesser-known places is a real winner. I've always loved to go to t...
Is travel good for your mental health? If you believe my guests in this episode (and me), then it's a resounding yes. I chat first with Kail...
Chatting with author and journalist Monisha Rajesh was just as delightful as I expected (and I had high expectations!). Long-distance train...
In this episode of the Van Life Diaries: Europe 1985, we move on to Scandinavia. Starting off in Denmark, we looked for Lego, noticed the si...
Di Westaway is the founder of Coastrek and Wild Women on Top, and she has had the most fabulous career building up these businesses - topped...
Creativity is an important part of my life, and I have so often observed that when I'm travelling, and also on my return, my creative thinki...
This special episode is the audio of the livestream of the August 2025 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, speaking about Chris...
Getting to know new people is one of the fun parts of travelling, and sometimes these encounters turn into long-term and even lifelong frien...
When my friend Tracy Collins messaged me to say hey, I'm doing a new series on the Global Travel Planning Podcast and I want to interview yo...
This is the fourth part of a monthly, six-episode series celebrating the fact that exactly 40 years ago this year, my family and I spent six...
Solo travel might seem daunting, but as you'll hear from my guests today, the benefits can be amazing. While this episode features women who...
Did you know that one in ten jobs worldwide is in the tourism industry? I think we're all sometimes guilty of merrily going on our travels w...
Two of my favourite things in life are reading novels and travelling, so it's about time they appeared in a podcast episode together - espec...
This is the third part of a monthly, six-episode series celebrating the fact that exactly 40 years ago this year, my family and I spent six...
When you're given an intriguing invitation or an interesting opportunity on your travels, do you say yes? I try to whenever possible, and th...
Whether it's a bus, train or subway, using any kind of public transport or transit system when you're travelling can be very eye-opening (an...
This special episode is the audio of the Facebook Livestream of the June 2025 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, speaking with...
There's no single definition of mindful travel, but in this episode we talk about various ideas: from travel where we intentionally take tim...
This is the second part of a monthly, six-episode series celebrating the fact that exactly 40 years ago this year, my family and I spent six...
It rarely takes much experience of travel to collect an experience of someone you meet while travelling being surprisingly kind. While we're...
We all take hundreds of photos on our travels these days, but I was keen to chat with Nicole Smith, founder of Flytographer, about how their...
This is the first of a monthly, six-episode series celebrating the fact that exactly 40 years ago this year, my family and I spent six month...
Travelling on foot is the ultimate slow travel and you can have some amazing experiences when incorporating a walk, hike or run into your tr...